Bad Girls Dormitory (1986)

Director: Tim Kincaid

Writer: Tim Kincaid

Composer: Man Parrish

Starring: Carey Zuris, Teresa Farley, Natalie O'Connell, Rick Gianasi, Marita, Jennifer Delora, Donna Eskra, Dan Barclay, Rebecca Rothbaum, Frances Raines, Jane Donadio, Jeffrey R. Iorio

More info: IMDb

Tagline: Too Young for Maximum Security ... Too Dangerous for Juvenile Hall!

Plot: Inmates at a women's prison run by a corrupt warden and her gang of sadistic guards plan a breakout.

My rating: 6.5/10

Will I watch it again?  Yes.

This late entry into the Women In Prison (WIP) genre is pretty darn good.  It feels like either writer/director Kincaid set out to make a WIP picture that has a strong message and a heaping dose of social commentary combined with all of the trappings of an WIP like shower scenes, fights, gratuitous nudity, corrupt warden and guards and even more boobs.  The acting isn't any better than you'd expect and sometimes it's so bad it's good.  And then you get crazy shit like this that appears out of nowhere that had me puzzled yet laughing...(watch it at least until the dance party starts and listen to the lyrics)

WIP fans who want a shitload of boobs won't be disappointed.  What surprised me most (besides enjoying it) was the seriousness Kincaid gives the girls' back stories and their struggles in the "dormitory" to play to the gravity of the problems that some folks deal with in the real world.  I didn't expect that.  Some of these scenes have a lot of weight to them and it's a nice change of pace to the standard WIP flick.  But then again...titties!